Return
A dark and shiny asphalt road lies quietly at the entrance of the village, circling beautifully through the village. Not far away, new rockeries, rocky country parks, blue lakes reflect the elaborate cobblestone winding paths, and tulips blooming along the trails.
Uncle Fu's house is right at the entrance of the village, and two or three neighbors are scattered next to the asphalt road. It was a three-room bungalow where farmers lived, with red brick exterior walls and roofs slabs so hot that they smoked white. Behind the house was a long narrow yard, a red-tiled kitchen, a room a jumble of household goods, and walked out along a tin gate, a small handkerchief-like round at the door, planted with some green onions, a few lettuces, and an old tree lying on the ground that separated it from the neighbor's house.
The man went out to remove herbs from the wheat field. The woman does cross stitch in front of the house. The cross-stitched cloth rolled together and touched by the hand looked like it was about to be completed. At the door, a thin young woman sat on a small stool peeling broad beans, and plump and round green broad beans lay on a round plate. She glanced at the woman with gray hair who had done the cross stitch, lowered her head and sighed. This woman is a step-mother-in-law who has been married for nearly a year, but she is diligent, her hands and feet are also sharp, and she does not spare energy when doing farm work, but after all, she is only a woman in a neighboring village who has lost her husband, and she also has a son who has not married a daughter-in-law at nearly thirty years old, and climbs the telephone pole outside with her husband, and only returns once a year. In the future, it will be necessary to come up with a sum of money to marry him. The young woman's daughter has good grades and has been admitted to a key high school this year, and her son is in the sixth grade of primary school.
Her mother-in-law chose to run away from home on a cold winter morning riding her red electric car. Three years on, no news at all. All she knew was that her mother-in-law believed in Jesus Christianity. She had believed it for five or six years. Before the mother-in-law left, she and her husband worked outside, and a pair of children were all taken care of by the mother-in-law. But since she and a four-eyed mother-in-law in Murakami had come to faith in Jesus, she had locked her two children at home and run outside to study on Sundays, and she couldn't come back in the middle of the night until three o'clock. The father-in-law carries an ash bucket in a neighboring village. She called every day to persuade her mother-in-law to rest her mind, which was lighter and heavier, and weighed herself. The relationship between the mother-in-law and the father-in-law is also frozen to the extreme. She always washed her feet and locked the door and threw her father-in-law's quilt on the couch in the hall. Once my father-in-law was drunk and kicked in the door to go to sleep. The mother-in-law just doesn't smell it. The father-in-law took a knife and cut a large hole in their bedroom door, and if she had not stopped her, the father-in-law would have beaten her to pieces. The mother-in-law's resignation is also expected. Her husband is bitter, and her daughter-in-law is also a cold face, and she seems to be a dissident at home.
Not a single person spoke. Only a green-headed fly hissed in circles overhead, and a large yellow dog in the house dragged its blood-red tongue and dozed in the doorway. A row of green irises against the wall is blooming purple flowers.
The mother-in-law in front of the house suddenly looked up and shouted:
"Abio!"
The daughter-in-law replied:
"What?"
"The woman is here again."
They were troubled from the morning when they got up, because there was a woman walking around their house. It was a bloated woman, wearing a grass-green duck-tongue hat and a blue mask that covered her entire face tightly. When the family went out to the ground, they also saw the woman sitting under the eaves of an abandoned peasant house across the door, and when he and his family sat around for lunch, they found that she was still sitting there, staring straight at the house without a word.
She seemed very tired, not eating or drinking. Sit there for an hour or two without moving your nest. She noticed that the people in the room were staring at him in unison, and she saw that they regarded her as a bad person, so she got up and walked farther away, under a leafy hairy millet tree, where she sat as if to spy on their every move.
Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were afraid. In particular, the mother-in-law was most worried, because she was born a timid person, plus her man would not be able to return from the field until the sun had set.
Her husband's name was Fu Haimin. Her own name was Luo Fengzhi. Both the daughter-in-law and the son were gifts from the husband's ex-wife. Grandchildren are someone else's. She was just a lonely old woman. Her heart was like an old loofah of a forgotten winter hanging from a dark wall, losing its youthful riches, and perhaps with a gust of wind she would fall into the grass. She has no sense of belonging.
Of course, Luo Fengzhi knew that the hostess of this family had only run away from home, but for three whole years, she had not seen anyone dead or dead. Lao Fu was unwilling to wait any longer. He persuaded his son and daughter-in-law to marry her and enter the door. I heard that Lao Fu's ex-wife is very strong and unwilling to be intimate with Lao Fu, so after she entered the door, Lao Fu was extremely warm to her, and her daughter-in-law's mouth was sweet, she did not shout her mother and did not speak, and her grandchildren were also grandmothers and grandmothers short. She was also more at ease.
The daughter-in-law also said that when the mother-in-law ran away and rode away from the family's electric car, took some clothes, ID card and a bank card. Cary is her long-married daughter who gives her pocket money every New Year's Festival, probably more than 10,000. At the beginning, the daughter-in-law wanted to force her mother-in-law to come back as soon as possible, and even moved to the bank to report the loss of the bank card, but was strictly rejected by her husband, he scolded her for not being too desperate, do you want to force her to die? The daughter-in-law also wanted to simply run to the police station to report that the mother-in-law was missing, and let the police help them investigate the whereabouts of the mother-in-law. But she hesitated, because her daughter's grades have always been good, and if her grandmother left some stains, she was afraid of affecting her child's future. As a sister-in-law, of course, she also called to ask whether the mother of the sister-in-law who had been married far away had contacted him, and the other party denied it. She was blaming her sister-in-law, and she felt that her sister-in-law had forced her mother away. Later, his father married his stepmother, and his sister-in-law did not even step on the door of the house.
The daughter-in-law said:
"She seems to know us. Maybe it's your mother's relative on your side. ”
But the mother-in-law shook her head in denial. No, no, she doesn't look like a local, certainly not. Wearing a long black coat with flowers, a pair of black trousers, and his eyes are rarely lifted.
"What are you doing here?" The mother-in-law shouted at the woman.
She replied in a dry voice that seemed to be sandpaper smeared on the wall:
"I'm just passing by to rest, I didn't offend your family, did I?"
The mother-in-law cried out again:
"Come on, you've been here for almost three days, and you're always looking into our house, as if you're secretly watching our every move?"
The woman retorted:
"I didn't get in the way, and I wouldn't break the law if I sat on the main road, right?"
The mother-in-law couldn't find anything to answer, so she had to go into the house with her daughter-in-law to cook.
Near noon, the old man returned. They told him about it. He affirmed:
"Maybe it's just the prank-loving guy who ignores her." She sat down and left. Sure enough, they ran out together, and they didn't see the guy with a bloated body like a bun. But at four o'clock in the afternoon she hit the door again with arrogance. Didn't see her again in the evening.
Old Man Fu put his arms around Mrs. Luo and went to sleep with confidence. His daughter-in-law, on the other hand, had been thinking about this wandering woman all night, and there was an unspeakable strangeness in her eyes. It was as if he wanted to be close to her, and as if he wanted to kill her.
It was raining lightly at dawn. Old Man Fu couldn't go out and get on the ground, so he squatted at the door to pick up the broken basket.
"Daddy, that girl's here again!" The daughter-in-law ran in and said.
The mother-in-law's face suddenly turned white again, and she pulled on the sleeve of the old man fu with excitement and said:
"You go out and tell her not to sneak up on us like this, I'm scared by her."
Fu Laohan was an old man with a large bald head, a strand of hair on his forehead went around his head haphazardly, his face was covered with wrinkles, and the corners of his mouth were slightly concave, and he very much wanted to steal the elders of Tang Monk's robes in "Journey to the West". But there is no shortage of strength. He walked out unhurriedly and came to the fat woman.
They talked.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stared at the two people without blinking. Far away, he waited uneasily.
Suddenly, the bucket-like woman and The Old Man Fu walked toward the house together.
The mother-in-law rubbed her hands in horror. Her man said to her:
"Bring her something to eat, she hasn't eaten well in three days."
The two of them walked into the house, followed by their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The bucket-like woman sat down and ate with her head bowed in the eyes of everyone.
Old Man Fu had already pulled a chair and sat down, looking at this uninvited guest.
"Where did you come from?"
"I came from the city, I didn't have any money, that's how I came on one foot."
"So where are you going?"
"I'll stop here."
"Do you have relatives here?"
"I have sons and daughters-in-law here, and grandchildren."
She slowly took off her duck-tongue hat and mask, a familiar and unfamiliar round, fat, somewhat unrecognizable face.
Fu Laohan jumped out of the way at once with disgust, shouting in a hoarse voice, "How come you, you have seen a ghost in the daytime?"
The daughter-in-law also exclaimed, "Mom, where have you been all these years?"
The woman, who was obviously so fat that she had lost her silhouette, said: "I haven't gone very far, I've only worked in the glass factory in town for three years." I washed two large truckloads of sweet potatoes and my finger knuckles were deformed. I went to the city to see a doctor, but my ID card could not be reimbursed. I came back to get my Social Security card. ”
Old Man Fu blushed and said, "I thought I would never want to see you in my life." You've come back unknowingly. How can you be so cruel that you can walk away when you say you can, even the grandchildren you brought up with you, you are willing to leave. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered, "I'm just a superfluous person, the grandchildren have grown up, and they have one heart with their mother." The two of us looked very close. I was ostracized from this house, and I had to walk away. Fortunately, the Lord blessed me, there was a factory to take me in, I discarded the original phone card, I do not want to have anything to do with you again, but this year my hand has been soaked in the water for too long, and my fingers can't bend. I need a Social Security card to see a doctor. ”
The daughter-in-law hurriedly handed her father-in-law a look, and then said: "You have to get a social security card in the city, and you haven't taken it back." But even if you don't hear from you, I will help you pay your medical insurance premiums every year. Even if you are blind, our family has not left you. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered from her nose and said, "Then why is this old woman sacred?" Your dad can't keep it and pleases him, right? ”
The second mother-in-law was so frightened that she hid to the side, not daring to speak. The father-in-law stopped in front of his mother-in-law and shouted, "You are less than a whisper." The earth has left everyone to turn around, no, it has been three years, your life and death are unknown, do I want to guard you like a jade? Besides, if you have no heart to stop at me, you don't have to talk about it. ”
The daughter-in-law looked at the first mother-in-law, and then at the second mother-in-law, nodded, and said, "What shall we do?" dad. ”
Fu Lao Han was also very embarrassed. I don't know how to be good. Later he made up his mind to say:
Son, are you going to come back this time to stay or rest? Son and aunt, don't worry, I won't let you sacrifice in vain. ”
The first mother-in-law cleared her throat and said word by word:
"I'd like to hear how you stir up this pot of porridge." I have raised sons and daughters, my daughters-in-law are married by me, my grandchildren are brought up by me, and it is impossible for others to sit back and enjoy their success. ”
Fu Laohan asked bluntly, "Answer me, are you a guest or a permanent resident?"
"What a guest, how to stay." She asked.
"It's up to you to decide, if you plan to throw away your previous grievances and live in harmony with me, I will send Luo Fengzhi out, divorce her, and pay her a sum of money loss fees." If you just come to get a social security card, have no intention of staying at home, and still believe in the guidance of your Lord, you will leave here immediately, go into the city to get the social security card yourself, and from now on, you will not be related to each other, and your life and death will have nothing to do with me and my children in the future. ”
The first mother-in-law said angrily: "My opinion is that I don't plan to have anything to do with your old pay, but I can't be cheap outsiders, I want my own property, I can't move in the future, I expect my son to raise me, I raise him small, he will have to raise me old." I don't want you dead old man. ”
Old Man Fu waved his hand and said, "If your daughter-in-law hears no, tomorrow she will clean up a house in the east and let her come and go as she pleases." Luo Feng knew that you should continue to be your stepmother with peace of mind, and you did not have to hide it. ”
Who knew that the next day the daughter-in-law knocked on the door to call the first mother-in-law to eat, but the bed was empty again, and the person left again.
Near noon, the people in the village ran to see the first mother-in-law who had been lost and recovered, but there was a void, and the people had long since disappeared.
But she said that it is certain to come back, she is old, need a social security card to see a doctor, if she can't get her hands, she will not be spared.
Return
A dark and shiny asphalt road lies quietly at the entrance of the village, circling beautifully through the village. Not far away, new rockeries, rocky country parks, blue lakes reflect the elaborate cobblestone winding paths, and tulips blooming along the trails.
Uncle Fu's house is right at the entrance of the village, and two or three neighbors are scattered next to the asphalt road. It was a three-room bungalow where farmers lived, with red brick exterior walls and roofs slabs so hot that they smoked white. Behind the house was a long narrow yard, a red-tiled kitchen, a room a jumble of household goods, and walked out along a tin gate, a small handkerchief-like round at the door, planted with some green onions, a few lettuces, and an old tree lying on the ground that separated it from the neighbor's house.
The man went out to remove herbs from the wheat field. The woman does cross stitch in front of the house. The cross-stitched cloth rolled together and touched by the hand looked like it was about to be completed. At the door, a thin young woman sat on a small stool peeling broad beans, and plump and round green broad beans lay on a round plate. She glanced at the woman with gray hair who had done the cross stitch, lowered her head and sighed. This woman is a step-mother-in-law who has been married for nearly a year, but she is diligent, her hands and feet are also sharp, and she does not spare energy when doing farm work, but after all, she is only a woman in a neighboring village who has lost her husband, and she also has a son who has not married a daughter-in-law at nearly thirty years old, and climbs the telephone pole outside with her husband, and only returns once a year. In the future, it will be necessary to come up with a sum of money to marry him. The young woman's daughter has good grades and has been admitted to a key high school this year, and her son is in the sixth grade of primary school.
Her mother-in-law chose to run away from home on a cold winter morning riding her red electric car. Three years on, no news at all. All she knew was that her mother-in-law believed in Jesus Christianity. She had believed it for five or six years. Before the mother-in-law left, she and her husband worked outside, and a pair of children were all taken care of by the mother-in-law. But since she and a four-eyed mother-in-law in Murakami had come to faith in Jesus, she had locked her two children at home and run outside to study on Sundays, and she couldn't come back in the middle of the night until three o'clock. The father-in-law carries an ash bucket in a neighboring village. She called every day to persuade her mother-in-law to rest her mind, which was lighter and heavier, and weighed herself. The relationship between the mother-in-law and the father-in-law is also frozen to the extreme. She always washed her feet and locked the door and threw her father-in-law's quilt on the couch in the hall. Once my father-in-law was drunk and kicked in the door to go to sleep. The mother-in-law just doesn't smell it. The father-in-law took a knife and cut a large hole in their bedroom door, and if she had not stopped her, the father-in-law would have beaten her to pieces. The mother-in-law's resignation is also expected. Her husband is bitter, and her daughter-in-law is also a cold face, and she seems to be a dissident at home.
Not a single person spoke. Only a green-headed fly hissed in circles overhead, and a large yellow dog in the house dragged its blood-red tongue and dozed in the doorway. A row of green irises against the wall is blooming purple flowers.
The mother-in-law in front of the house suddenly looked up and shouted:
"Abio!"
The daughter-in-law replied:
"What?"
"The woman is here again."
They were troubled from the morning when they got up, because there was a woman walking around their house. It was a bloated woman, wearing a grass-green duck-tongue hat and a blue mask that covered her entire face tightly. When the family went out to the ground, they also saw the woman sitting under the eaves of an abandoned peasant house across the door, and when he and his family sat around for lunch, they found that she was still sitting there, staring straight at the house without a word.
She seemed very tired, not eating or drinking. Sit there for an hour or two without moving your nest. She noticed that the people in the room were staring at him in unison, and she saw that they regarded her as a bad person, so she got up and walked farther away, under a leafy hairy millet tree, where she sat as if to spy on their every move.
Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were afraid. In particular, the mother-in-law was most worried, because she was born a timid person, plus her man would not be able to return from the field until the sun had set.
Her husband's name was Fu Haimin. Her own name was Luo Fengzhi. Both the daughter-in-law and the son were gifts from the husband's ex-wife. Grandchildren are someone else's. She was just a lonely old woman. Her heart was like an old loofah of a forgotten winter hanging from a dark wall, losing its youthful riches, and perhaps with a gust of wind she would fall into the grass. She has no sense of belonging.
Of course, Luo Fengzhi knew that the hostess of this family had only run away from home, but for three whole years, she had not seen anyone dead or dead. Lao Fu was unwilling to wait any longer. He persuaded his son and daughter-in-law to marry her and enter the door. I heard that Lao Fu's ex-wife is very strong and unwilling to be intimate with Lao Fu, so after she entered the door, Lao Fu was extremely warm to her, and her daughter-in-law's mouth was sweet, she did not shout her mother and did not speak, and her grandchildren were also grandmothers and grandmothers short. She was also more at ease.
The daughter-in-law also said that when the mother-in-law ran away and rode away from the family's electric car, took some clothes, ID card and a bank card. Cary is her long-married daughter who gives her pocket money every New Year's Festival, probably more than 10,000. At the beginning, the daughter-in-law wanted to force her mother-in-law to come back as soon as possible, and even moved to the bank to report the loss of the bank card, but was strictly rejected by her husband, he scolded her for not being too desperate, do you want to force her to die? The daughter-in-law also wanted to simply run to the police station to report that the mother-in-law was missing, and let the police help them investigate the whereabouts of the mother-in-law. But she hesitated, because her daughter's grades have always been good, and if her grandmother left some stains, she was afraid of affecting her child's future. As a sister-in-law, of course, she also called to ask whether the mother of the sister-in-law who had been married far away had contacted him, and the other party denied it. She was blaming her sister-in-law, and she felt that her sister-in-law had forced her mother away. Later, his father married his stepmother, and his sister-in-law did not even step on the door of the house.
The daughter-in-law said:
"She seems to know us. Maybe it's your mother's relative on your side. ”
But the mother-in-law shook her head in denial. No, no, she doesn't look like a local, certainly not. Wearing a long black coat with flowers, a pair of black trousers, and his eyes are rarely lifted.
"What are you doing here?" The mother-in-law shouted at the woman.
She replied in a dry voice that seemed to be sandpaper smeared on the wall:
"I'm just passing by to rest, I didn't offend your family, did I?"
The mother-in-law cried out again:
"Come on, you've been here for almost three days, and you're always looking into our house, as if you're secretly watching our every move?"
The woman retorted:
"I didn't get in the way, and I wouldn't break the law if I sat on the main road, right?"
The mother-in-law couldn't find anything to answer, so she had to go into the house with her daughter-in-law to cook.
Near noon, the old man returned. They told him about it. He affirmed:
"Maybe it's just the prank-loving guy who ignores her." She sat down and left. Sure enough, they ran out together, and they didn't see the guy with a bloated body like a bun. But at four o'clock in the afternoon she hit the door again with arrogance. Didn't see her again in the evening.
Old Man Fu put his arms around Mrs. Luo and went to sleep with confidence. His daughter-in-law, on the other hand, had been thinking about this wandering woman all night, and there was an unspeakable strangeness in her eyes. It was as if he wanted to be close to her, and as if he wanted to kill her.
It was raining lightly at dawn. Old Man Fu couldn't go out and get on the ground, so he squatted at the door to pick up the broken basket.
"Daddy, that girl's here again!" The daughter-in-law ran in and said.
The mother-in-law's face suddenly turned white again, and she pulled on the sleeve of the old man fu with excitement and said:
"You go out and tell her not to sneak up on us like this, I'm scared by her."
Fu Laohan was an old man with a large bald head, a strand of hair on his forehead went around his head haphazardly, his face was covered with wrinkles, and the corners of his mouth were slightly concave, and he very much wanted to steal the elders of Tang Monk's robes in "Journey to the West". But there is no shortage of strength. He walked out unhurriedly and came to the fat woman.
They talked.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stared at the two people without blinking. Far away, he waited uneasily.
Suddenly, the bucket-like woman and The Old Man Fu walked toward the house together.
The mother-in-law rubbed her hands in horror. Her man said to her:
"Bring her something to eat, she hasn't eaten well in three days."
The two of them walked into the house, followed by their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The bucket-like woman sat down and ate with her head bowed in the eyes of everyone.
Old Man Fu had already pulled a chair and sat down, looking at this uninvited guest.
"Where did you come from?"
"I came from the city, I didn't have any money, that's how I came on one foot."
"So where are you going?"
"I'll stop here."
"Do you have relatives here?"
"I have sons and daughters-in-law here, and grandchildren."
She slowly took off her duck-tongue hat and mask, a familiar and unfamiliar round, fat, somewhat unrecognizable face.
Fu Laohan jumped out of the way at once with disgust, shouting in a hoarse voice, "How come you, you have seen a ghost in the daytime?"
The daughter-in-law also exclaimed, "Mom, where have you been all these years?"
The woman, who was obviously so fat that she had lost her silhouette, said: "I haven't gone very far, I've only worked in the glass factory in town for three years." I washed two large truckloads of sweet potatoes and my finger knuckles were deformed. I went to the city to see a doctor, but my ID card could not be reimbursed. I came back to get my Social Security card. ”
Old Man Fu blushed and said, "I thought I would never want to see you in my life." You've come back unknowingly. How can you be so cruel that you can walk away when you say you can, even the grandchildren you brought up with you, you are willing to leave. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered, "I'm just a superfluous person, the grandchildren have grown up, and they have one heart with their mother." The two of us looked very close. I was ostracized from this house, and I had to walk away. Fortunately, the Lord blessed me, there was a factory to take me in, I discarded the original phone card, I do not want to have anything to do with you again, but this year my hand has been soaked in the water for too long, and my fingers can't bend. I need a Social Security card to see a doctor. ”
The daughter-in-law hurriedly handed her father-in-law a look, and then said: "You have to get a social security card in the city, and you haven't taken it back." But even if you don't hear from you, I will help you pay your medical insurance premiums every year. Even if you are blind, our family has not left you. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered from her nose and said, "Then why is this old woman sacred?" Your dad can't keep it and pleases him, right? ”
The second mother-in-law was so frightened that she hid to the side, not daring to speak. The father-in-law stopped in front of his mother-in-law and shouted, "You are less than a whisper." The earth has left everyone to turn around, no, it has been three years, your life and death are unknown, do I want to guard you like a jade? Besides, if you have no heart to stop at me, you don't have to talk about it. ”
The daughter-in-law looked at the first mother-in-law, and then at the second mother-in-law, nodded, and said, "What shall we do?" dad. ”
Fu Lao Han was also very embarrassed. I don't know how to be good. Later he made up his mind to say:
Son, are you going to come back this time to stay or rest? Son and aunt, don't worry, I won't let you sacrifice in vain. ”
The first mother-in-law cleared her throat and said word by word:
"I'd like to hear how you stir up this pot of porridge." I have raised sons and daughters, my daughters-in-law are married by me, my grandchildren are brought up by me, and it is impossible for others to sit back and enjoy their success. ”
Fu Laohan asked bluntly, "Answer me, are you a guest or a permanent resident?"
"What a guest, how to stay." She asked.
"It's up to you to decide, if you plan to throw away your previous grievances and live in harmony with me, I will send Luo Fengzhi out, divorce her, and pay her a sum of money loss fees." If you just come to get a social security card, have no intention of staying at home, and still believe in the guidance of your Lord, you will leave here immediately, go into the city to get the social security card yourself, and from now on, you will not be related to each other, and your life and death will have nothing to do with me and my children in the future. ”
The first mother-in-law said angrily: "My opinion is that I don't plan to have anything to do with your old pay, but I can't be cheap outsiders, I want my own property, I can't move in the future, I expect my son to raise me, I raise him small, he will have to raise me old." I don't want you dead old man. ”
Old Man Fu waved his hand and said, "If your daughter-in-law hears no, tomorrow she will clean up a house in the east and let her come and go as she pleases." Luo Feng knew that you should continue to be your stepmother with peace of mind, and you did not have to hide it. ”
Who knew that the next day the daughter-in-law knocked on the door to call the first mother-in-law to eat, but the bed was empty again, and the person left again.
Near noon, the people in the village ran to see the first mother-in-law who had been lost and recovered, but there was a void, and the people had long since disappeared.
But she said that it is certain to come back, she is old, need a social security card to see a doctor, if she can't get her hands, she will not be spared.
Return
A dark and shiny asphalt road lies quietly at the entrance of the village, circling beautifully through the village. Not far away, new rockeries, rocky country parks, blue lakes reflect the elaborate cobblestone winding paths, and tulips blooming along the trails.
Uncle Fu's house is right at the entrance of the village, and two or three neighbors are scattered next to the asphalt road. It was a three-room bungalow where farmers lived, with red brick exterior walls and roofs slabs so hot that they smoked white. Behind the house was a long narrow yard, a red-tiled kitchen, a room a jumble of household goods, and walked out along a tin gate, a small handkerchief-like round at the door, planted with some green onions, a few lettuces, and an old tree lying on the ground that separated it from the neighbor's house.
The man went out to remove herbs from the wheat field. The woman does cross stitch in front of the house. The cross-stitched cloth rolled together and touched by the hand looked like it was about to be completed. At the door, a thin young woman sat on a small stool peeling broad beans, and plump and round green broad beans lay on a round plate. She glanced at the woman with gray hair who had done the cross stitch, lowered her head and sighed. This woman is a step-mother-in-law who has been married for nearly a year, but she is diligent, her hands and feet are also sharp, and she does not spare energy when doing farm work, but after all, she is only a woman in a neighboring village who has lost her husband, and she also has a son who has not married a daughter-in-law at nearly thirty years old, and climbs the telephone pole outside with her husband, and only returns once a year. In the future, it will be necessary to come up with a sum of money to marry him. The young woman's daughter has good grades and has been admitted to a key high school this year, and her son is in the sixth grade of primary school.
Her mother-in-law chose to run away from home on a cold winter morning riding her red electric car. Three years on, no news at all. All she knew was that her mother-in-law believed in Jesus Christianity. She had believed it for five or six years. Before the mother-in-law left, she and her husband worked outside, and a pair of children were all taken care of by the mother-in-law. But since she and a four-eyed mother-in-law in Murakami had come to faith in Jesus, she had locked her two children at home and run outside to study on Sundays, and she couldn't come back in the middle of the night until three o'clock. The father-in-law carries an ash bucket in a neighboring village. She called every day to persuade her mother-in-law to rest her mind, which was lighter and heavier, and weighed herself. The relationship between the mother-in-law and the father-in-law is also frozen to the extreme. She always washed her feet and locked the door and threw her father-in-law's quilt on the couch in the hall. Once my father-in-law was drunk and kicked in the door to go to sleep. The mother-in-law just doesn't smell it. The father-in-law took a knife and cut a large hole in their bedroom door, and if she had not stopped her, the father-in-law would have beaten her to pieces. The mother-in-law's resignation is also expected. Her husband is bitter, and her daughter-in-law is also a cold face, and she seems to be a dissident at home.
Not a single person spoke. Only a green-headed fly hissed in circles overhead, and a large yellow dog in the house dragged its blood-red tongue and dozed in the doorway. A row of green irises against the wall is blooming purple flowers.
The mother-in-law in front of the house suddenly looked up and shouted:
"Abio!"
The daughter-in-law replied:
"What?"
"The woman is here again."
They were troubled from the morning when they got up, because there was a woman walking around their house. It was a bloated woman, wearing a grass-green duck-tongue hat and a blue mask that covered her entire face tightly. When the family went out to the ground, they also saw the woman sitting under the eaves of an abandoned peasant house across the door, and when he and his family sat around for lunch, they found that she was still sitting there, staring straight at the house without a word.
She seemed very tired, not eating or drinking. Sit there for an hour or two without moving your nest. She noticed that the people in the room were staring at him in unison, and she saw that they regarded her as a bad person, so she got up and walked farther away, under a leafy hairy millet tree, where she sat as if to spy on their every move.
Both the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law were afraid. In particular, the mother-in-law was most worried, because she was born a timid person, plus her man would not be able to return from the field until the sun had set.
Her husband's name was Fu Haimin. Her own name was Luo Fengzhi. Both the daughter-in-law and the son were gifts from the husband's ex-wife. Grandchildren are someone else's. She was just a lonely old woman. Her heart was like an old loofah of a forgotten winter hanging from a dark wall, losing its youthful riches, and perhaps with a gust of wind she would fall into the grass. She has no sense of belonging.
Of course, Luo Fengzhi knew that the hostess of this family had only run away from home, but for three whole years, she had not seen anyone dead or dead. Lao Fu was unwilling to wait any longer. He persuaded his son and daughter-in-law to marry her and enter the door. I heard that Lao Fu's ex-wife is very strong and unwilling to be intimate with Lao Fu, so after she entered the door, Lao Fu was extremely warm to her, and her daughter-in-law's mouth was sweet, she did not shout her mother and did not speak, and her grandchildren were also grandmothers and grandmothers short. She was also more at ease.
The daughter-in-law also said that when the mother-in-law ran away and rode away from the family's electric car, took some clothes, ID card and a bank card. Cary is her long-married daughter who gives her pocket money every New Year's Festival, probably more than 10,000. At the beginning, the daughter-in-law wanted to force her mother-in-law to come back as soon as possible, and even moved to the bank to report the loss of the bank card, but was strictly rejected by her husband, he scolded her for not being too desperate, do you want to force her to die? The daughter-in-law also wanted to simply run to the police station to report that the mother-in-law was missing, and let the police help them investigate the whereabouts of the mother-in-law. But she hesitated, because her daughter's grades have always been good, and if her grandmother left some stains, she was afraid of affecting her child's future. As a sister-in-law, of course, she also called to ask whether the mother of the sister-in-law who had been married far away had contacted him, and the other party denied it. She was blaming her sister-in-law, and she felt that her sister-in-law had forced her mother away. Later, his father married his stepmother, and his sister-in-law did not even step on the door of the house.
The daughter-in-law said:
"She seems to know us. Maybe it's your mother's relative on your side. ”
But the mother-in-law shook her head in denial. No, no, she doesn't look like a local, certainly not. Wearing a long black coat with flowers, a pair of black trousers, and his eyes are rarely lifted.
"What are you doing here?" The mother-in-law shouted at the woman.
She replied in a dry voice that seemed to be sandpaper smeared on the wall:
"I'm just passing by to rest, I didn't offend your family, did I?"
The mother-in-law cried out again:
"Come on, you've been here for almost three days, and you're always looking into our house, as if you're secretly watching our every move?"
The woman retorted:
"I didn't get in the way, and I wouldn't break the law if I sat on the main road, right?"
The mother-in-law couldn't find anything to answer, so she had to go into the house with her daughter-in-law to cook.
Near noon, the old man returned. They told him about it. He affirmed:
"Maybe it's just the prank-loving guy who ignores her." She sat down and left. Sure enough, they ran out together, and they didn't see the guy with a bloated body like a bun. But at four o'clock in the afternoon she hit the door again with arrogance. Didn't see her again in the evening.
Old Man Fu put his arms around Mrs. Luo and went to sleep with confidence. His daughter-in-law, on the other hand, had been thinking about this wandering woman all night, and there was an unspeakable strangeness in her eyes. It was as if he wanted to be close to her, and as if he wanted to kill her.
It was raining lightly at dawn. Old Man Fu couldn't go out and get on the ground, so he squatted at the door to pick up the broken basket.
"Daddy, that girl's here again!" The daughter-in-law ran in and said.
The mother-in-law's face suddenly turned white again, and she pulled on the sleeve of the old man fu with excitement and said:
"You go out and tell her not to sneak up on us like this, I'm scared by her."
Fu Laohan was an old man with a large bald head, a strand of hair on his forehead went around his head haphazardly, his face was covered with wrinkles, and the corners of his mouth were slightly concave, and he very much wanted to steal the elders of Tang Monk's robes in "Journey to the West". But there is no shortage of strength. He walked out unhurriedly and came to the fat woman.
They talked.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stared at the two people without blinking. Far away, he waited uneasily.
Suddenly, the bucket-like woman and The Old Man Fu walked toward the house together.
The mother-in-law rubbed her hands in horror. Her man said to her:
"Bring her something to eat, she hasn't eaten well in three days."
The two of them walked into the house, followed by their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. The bucket-like woman sat down and ate with her head bowed in the eyes of everyone.
Old Man Fu had already pulled a chair and sat down, looking at this uninvited guest.
"Where did you come from?"
"I came from the city, I didn't have any money, that's how I came on one foot."
"So where are you going?"
"I'll stop here."
"Do you have relatives here?"
"I have sons and daughters-in-law here, and grandchildren."
She slowly took off her duck-tongue hat and mask, a familiar and unfamiliar round, fat, somewhat unrecognizable face.
Fu Laohan jumped out of the way at once with disgust, shouting in a hoarse voice, "How come you, you have seen a ghost in the daytime?"
The daughter-in-law also exclaimed, "Mom, where have you been all these years?"
The woman, who was obviously so fat that she had lost her silhouette, said: "I haven't gone very far, I've only worked in the glass factory in town for three years." I washed two large truckloads of sweet potatoes and my finger knuckles were deformed. I went to the city to see a doctor, but my ID card could not be reimbursed. I came back to get my Social Security card. ”
Old Man Fu blushed and said, "I thought I would never want to see you in my life." You've come back unknowingly. How can you be so cruel that you can walk away when you say you can, even the grandchildren you brought up with you, you are willing to leave. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered, "I'm just a superfluous person, the grandchildren have grown up, and they have one heart with their mother." The two of us looked very close. I was ostracized from this house, and I had to walk away. Fortunately, the Lord blessed me, there was a factory to take me in, I discarded the original phone card, I do not want to have anything to do with you again, but this year my hand has been soaked in the water for too long, and my fingers can't bend. I need a Social Security card to see a doctor. ”
The daughter-in-law hurriedly handed her father-in-law a look, and then said: "You have to get a social security card in the city, and you haven't taken it back." But even if you don't hear from you, I will help you pay your medical insurance premiums every year. Even if you are blind, our family has not left you. ”
The first mother-in-law sneered from her nose and said, "Then why is this old woman sacred?" Your dad can't keep it and pleases him, right? ”
The second mother-in-law was so frightened that she hid to the side, not daring to speak. The father-in-law stopped in front of his mother-in-law and shouted, "You are less than a whisper." The earth has left everyone to turn around, no, it has been three years, your life and death are unknown, do I want to guard you like a jade? Besides, if you have no heart to stop at me, you don't have to talk about it. ”
The daughter-in-law looked at the first mother-in-law, and then at the second mother-in-law, nodded, and said, "What shall we do?" dad. ”
Fu Lao Han was also very embarrassed. I don't know how to be good. Later he made up his mind to say:
Son, are you going to come back this time to stay or rest? Son and aunt, don't worry, I won't let you sacrifice in vain. ”
The first mother-in-law cleared her throat and said word by word:
"I'd like to hear how you stir up this pot of porridge." I have raised sons and daughters, my daughters-in-law are married by me, my grandchildren are brought up by me, and it is impossible for others to sit back and enjoy their success. ”
Fu Laohan asked bluntly, "Answer me, are you a guest or a permanent resident?"
"What a guest, how to stay." She asked.
"It's up to you to decide, if you plan to throw away your previous grievances and live in harmony with me, I will send Luo Fengzhi out, divorce her, and pay her a sum of money loss fees." If you just come to get a social security card, have no intention of staying at home, and still believe in the guidance of your Lord, you will leave here immediately, go into the city to get the social security card yourself, and from now on, you will not be related to each other, and your life and death will have nothing to do with me and my children in the future. ”
The first mother-in-law said angrily: "My opinion is that I don't plan to have anything to do with your old pay, but I can't be cheap outsiders, I want my own property, I can't move in the future, I expect my son to raise me, I raise him small, he will have to raise me old." I don't want you dead old man. ”
Old Man Fu waved his hand and said, "If your daughter-in-law hears no, tomorrow she will clean up a house in the east and let her come and go as she pleases." Luo Feng knew that you should continue to be your stepmother with peace of mind, and you did not have to hide it. ”
Who knew that the next day the daughter-in-law knocked on the door to call the first mother-in-law to eat, but the bed was empty again, and the person left again.
Near noon, the people in the village ran to see the first mother-in-law who had been lost and recovered, but there was a void, and the people had long since disappeared.
But she said that it is certain to come back, she is old, need a social security card to see a doctor, if she can't get her hands, she will not be spared.
